Daily Dothttp://www.dailydot.com/Daily Dot Articleen-usMon, 05 Nov 2012 22:34:24 +0000Tumblr reaches 20 billion monthly pageviewshttp://www.dailydot.com/news/tumblr-20-billion-pageviews/<p><img src='//cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/5c/29/5c29e23b2a11a460b63f419b3e8c864f.jpg'></p><p>
Tumblr, the microblog known as a <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/culture/25-year-anniversary-gifs-collection/">GIF artist haven</a> and a home to memes like <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/entertainment/texts-from-hillary-clinton-tumblr/">Texts From Hillary Clinton</a>, is one of the <a href="http://www.tumblr.com/about">top 20 most visited websites</a> in the U.S.</p>
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In an announcement made today, Tumblr CEO and founder David Karp confirmed that the site now collects 20 billion pageviews a month, up from about 13 billion in September, GigaOM <a href="http://gigaom.com/2012/11/05/a-beautiful-design-and-no-jerks-how-tumblr-did-it/">reported</a>.</p>
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&ldquo;This started pretty modestly as something I wanted for myself,&rdquo; Karp <a href="http://gigaom.com/2012/11/05/a-beautiful-design-and-no-jerks-how-tumblr-did-it/">told</a> GigaOM&rsquo;s Mathew Ingram. &ldquo;I remember very vividly that moment where I was like, it wouldn&rsquo;t be much more work to add a column to the database that [asked] which user posted this post and maybe make it something other people can use.&rdquo;</p>
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Karp credits Tumblr&rsquo;s growing smartphone market with helping to push it to the 20 billion mark, although he didn&rsquo;t reveal exactly how much of the site&rsquo;s traffic comes from its mobile apps.</p>
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Tumblr was founded in February 2007. Today it collects more than <a href="http://www.tumblr.com/press">77 million posts a day</a> across 79 million blogs.</p>
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Tumblr&rsquo;s 20 billion monthly pageviews rank it as one of the most visited sites in the world. In July 2011 the microblog was number 92 on a list of <a href="http://www.google.com/adplanner/static/top1000/index.html">Google&rsquo;s top 1,000 most</a> visited sites in the world. If Tumblr&rsquo;s current pageview number was used instead, it would now rank somewhere in the top 25 of that same list.</p>
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Facebook, the world&rsquo;s leading social network which registered its <a href="http://dailydot.tumblr.com/post/32873092916/you-know-whats-cool-gif-by-fern">1 billionth user on Oct. 4</a>, collects more than <a href="http://www.google.com/adplanner/static/top1000/index.html">1 trillion pageviews</a> a month, according to Google&rsquo;s top 1,000 list. Twitter collects more than <a href="http://www.google.com/adplanner/static/top1000/index.html">5.9 billion pageviews</a> per month, despite the fact that a bulk of its users visit Twitter via mobile apps and not its website..</p>
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In September <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/news/reddit-pageviews-august-data/">Reddit collected 3.4 billion pageviews</a> and in October Etsy reported <a href="http://www.etsy.com/blog/news/2012/etsy-statistics-september-2012/">1.4 billion</a>.</p>
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It is unclear where Tumblr currently lists in the top 20 websites in the U.S., but according to <a href="http://www.quantcast.com/tumblr.com">Quantcast</a> it is number 19. The top spot currently belongs to <a href="http://www.quantcast.com/google.com">Google</a>.</p>
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The question is, how many <a href="http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/cat-gif">GIFs of cats</a> will it take to surpass the search engine giant?</p>
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<em>Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/inafrenzy/">InaFrenzy</a>/<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/inafrenzy/5783974570/">Flickr</a></em></p>
fernando@dailydot.com (Fernando Alfonso III)Mon, 05 Nov 2012 22:34:24 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/news/tumblr-20-billion-pageviews/TumblrNewsBusiness